Ubiquity symposium: Biological Computation

Abstract

In this thirteenth piece to the Ubiquity symposium discussing What is computation? Melanie Mitchell discusses the idea that biological computation is a process that occurs in nature, not merely in computer simulations of nature. --Editor

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Index Terms

• Applied computing

  • Life and medical sciences

    • Computational biology

    • Genetics

    • Systems biology

• General and reference

  • Document types

    • General conference proceedings